"How could that be?!" Another cultivator who seemed to know something hurriedly cried out, "The Dao Alliance sealed off the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss long before it announced the Spiritual Root selection technique. Your Xinming Sect belongs to the Guangqing Immortal Alliance, and you are more than a million li away from the Heaven Sacrificing Abyss. How could you have obtained it first?"
"Well..." The cultivator named Xie Han hesitated.
"Cough, cough..." At that moment, coughing sounded from within the bamboo platform. As another bamboo stalk burst apart, a figure Xiao Hua recognized stepped out from inside. Was it not Zhe Jun, the Luoxian Sect disciple who had mysteriously vanished?
After stepping out of the bamboo, Zhe Jun likewise glanced over the crowd and said, "Allow this poor Daoist to answer that question..."
Yet Zhe Jun had only said that much before freezing on the spot again! Xiao Hua had always been rather tall, and when he entered Changlin Pavilion, urged on by Hong Qing's enthusiasm, he had walked at the front. Zhe Jun's gaze swept over the crowd and easily found Xiao Hua. His eyes locked tightly onto him, his face filled with disbelief!
"Senior Zhang..." Zhe Jun came to his senses and uttered three words. Then he suddenly raised a hand, pointed at Xiao Hua, and shouted, "Quick, quick! He is a cultivator from the Dao Alliance! Huan Suanzi, hurry, summon the guards..."
"A... a Dao Alliance cultivator??" Huan Suanzi was initially shocked, but when he saw Xiao Hua, he did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Fellow Daoist Zhe, are you sure you saw correctly? This fellow Daoist may be a Nascent Soul cultivator, but you cannot beat him to death with one stroke simply because of that and declare him a Dao Alliance cultivator, can you?